Doing Security The Right Way

May 8, 2018

Signs of Data Breach on a Network

It tends to be the worst fear of any cybersecurity profession to be informed by a third party entity or even by law that he or she has suffered a data breach. Even with the growth of technology towards securing data and minimizing risk, some organizations tend to become victims of exfiltration of sensitive data from their system which can last for weeks or even months. One would not only have data in the wrong hands but would also lead to possible customer loss, public embarrassment among others. According to Santosh Devaraj Secure Logic, there are also high chances that the company may end up losing trade partners. It would be critical to making sure that, there is no data breach something that demands continuous monitoring of the network.

File changes are not of the signs that all is not well with the company network. In most cases, cybercrime begins by replacement, deletion, modification and changing of files on the network. Depending on the criminal in question the changes can take only a few minutes to make these changes and may need the organization to be actively monitoring to detect such changes. According to Santosh Devaraj Secure Logic, there may be need for real time monitoring of the network especially where the company holds sensitive information and hence the need to properly secure information. In that case, it would be critical difference between normal changes and data breaches. An organization would, therefore, need a technical organization that can deal with such sensitive issues that can easily identify neutral and positive changes from negative changes as fast as possible.

Another a sign that all is not well with the network includes instances where the internet is extremely slow. The moment the internet is so slow may be an indication that all is not well. You would need to make sure that both the network and the devices as well checked by an expert to avoid instances where you allow more access to data by the criminals. The most probable causes of slow internet tends to include a virus on the network, a virus or even outbound traffic.

One would also need to note that the devices may be tampered with as well. In a case where there is any device that is noted to be running after it was turned on, it simply means that someone on-site or with remote control tampered with the device. You would also be alarmed the moment there are fake antivirus warnings, popup messages, or even weird browser toolbars. One would avoid interacting with the device more until an expert figures out whether it is a data breach or not.